II. THE NOVEL
| Date | Picaresque | Society and Domestic | Historical | Didactic |
| 1500 | ||||
| Utopia | ||||
| The Unfortunate Traveller | Arcadia | |||
| 1600 | ||||
| Head | ||||
| 1700 | Behn | |||
| Addison | ||||
| Defoe | ||||
| Richardson | ||||
| Fielding | Johnson | |||
| Smollett | ||||
| Sterne | Burney | |||
| 1800 | Austen | |||
| Edgeworth | Porter | |||
| Marryat | Scott | |||
| Dickens | Bulwer-Lytton | |||
| Borrow | Thackeray | G. P. R. James | ||
| Meredith | Thackeray | |||
| 1900 | Hardy | Stevenson | Pater |